Method of producing apparel ornaments



Nov. 23 1926.

A. ROSENBERG METHOD OF PRODUCING APPAREL ORNAMENTS Filed August 28, 1925 2 Shegts-Sheet l INVENTOR Jim/1am J? 0561? 5a;-

- WITNESSES ATTORNEYS Nov. 23 1926.

A. ROSENBERG I METHOD OF PRODUCING APPAREL ORNAMENTS Filed August 28, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lNYiiNTOR h /m7/z JUDY/I 0y ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 23, 1926.

PATNT 'FFlCE.

ABRAHAM ROSENBERG, OF FAR ROCKA'WAY, NEVV YORK.

METHOD OF PRODUCING APPAREL ORNAMENTS.

Application filed August 28, 1925.

My invention relates to the production of frogs and other ornaments for apparel .and the present invention has more particularly in view the production of ornaments made complete and ready to be applied to apparel as distinguished from ornaments produced in situ on the garment.

WVith the ordinary methods of producing frogs, or like ornaments involving loops, from corded braid the universal practice is to first form the braid into a loop and then flatten out the braid at the loop. The step of curving the braid into loop form buckles the material at the inner edge because the total effective length at the outer edge is more than the total effective length at the inner edge of the loop. The flattening of the loop is made possible by the fact that the cord may be freely pulled through the tunneled seam as it is called in the trade in which the cord is loose permitting the cord to be pulled for contracting the loop at the inner edge.

The ordinary methods of forming a frog are slow and expensive and they leave much to be desired in the way of a perfectly flattened finished product.

The general object of my invention is to provide a method of producing frogs and like ornaments, whereby economy in the production thereof is materially promoted and a greatly improved product will result.

An important object also of the invention is to provide a method of forming frogs and like ornaments in a manner that the pulling of the cord after a loop has been formed will not distort the braid at the outer edge as well as to provide a method involving the securing of the braid at the outer edge to the apparel or to a temporary base fabric before the cord is pulled.

My invention also has in view the method involving the use of a destructible base fabric on which the ornament is produced and the destruction of such base fabric after the loops have been formed.

. The invention furthermore has for an important object the production of looped ornaments in a continuous series and involving a severing of the material between the loops in attaining the object of promoting economy in the production of the ornaments. The manner and means whereby the above serial No. 53,187.

and other objects are attained, will clearly appear as the description proceeds.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of two examples of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a buckran base fabric and a continuous braid formed into a multiplicity of elements to enter into the formation of a frog for ornamental apparel; V

Figure 2 is a plan view of one of the ele ments shown in Figure 1 after the same has been severed from the fabric formed into loops and the loops contracted by a pulling of the cord;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 2 but showing the formation of a two-looped element like Figure 2 but complete as to the embodiment therein of an embroidered button;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure .1 but showing frog elements to be imposed on the corresponding individual frog elements shown in Figure .1 when both of said frog elements have been severed;

Figure 4 is a view of thefrog elements imposed one on the other with the fragments of the base fabric and before the base fabric has been destroyed;

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure abut with the frog elements united by a-central embroidery button;

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 5 but subsequent to the destruction of the base fabric base and showing one face of the completed frog ornament;

Figure 7 is a View of the reverse side of the frog ornament, the other side of which is shown in Figure 6;

Figure 8 is an edge view of the frog ornament; v

Figure 9 is a plan view showing an ornament in which all the loops thereof are continuous one with another.

In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, showing the production of a frog ornament. a strip of corded braid 10 is provided and this sewed. to a prepared doctored buckram or like destructible fabric base 11. by a contini'u ous line of stitching 12 extending about the outer edge of the braid, after said braid has been formed into a continuous series of loops. Thus, the loops are termed alternately at opposite sides of an intermediate line, the loops at one side being smaller than those at the other side in the particular design illustrated. The braid employed is of the type having a tunneled seam 13 through which a cord l-i is run and in which seam the cord is loose to be pulled. The fabric 11 is severed between the pairs of loops as indicated by the dot-and-dash lines in Figures 1 and 3, so that a double loop will be retained on the fabric piece as shown in Figure 2 in which the cord 1% is shown as having been pulled to flatten down the corded edge of the braid. The holding down of the braid by the line of stitching 12 prevents the braid from buckling at the outer edge as the cord is pulled and the pulling of the cord will therefore do no more than flatten down the braid at the inner edge by making the total length of the outer edge conform to the less total length of the braid at the inner edge.

t will be noted from the form of the loops shown in Figure 1 that those loops at the left of the figure where the material of the braid at the sides of a loop is brought together to complete the loop, one side of the loop is juxtaposed to the other and not crossed over the other. The loops are formed as follows: Taking the lowermost terminal of the strip 10 of braid in Figure 1,

' the first right-hand loop at the bottom is formed and the material of the braid is then erossed over the braid beneath in completing the loop but that crossing is the only one in the forming of a pair of loops as the loops at the left are completed without crossing the braid, the side edges of the first loop at the left, being merely juxtaposed. After the formation of the first right-hand loop, as shown for example at the bottom of Figure 1, and the crossing of the braid over the braid material beneath, as well as the formation of the first left-hand loop to complete a pair of opposed loops, the material is continued to form the next loop at the right of the figure and then the second left loop is formed and so on continuously toform plurality of opposed pairs of loops fter which the buclrram or base material is severed between the pairs of loops as previously stated.

In the present invention the frog is formed by superposing one pair of loops onto another pair of loops and at right angles thereto or approximately so. After the loops shown in Figure 1 are formed and the buclrram or base material 11 severed, the cord 14 is pulled to flatten out the loop and half the frog is complete subject to the destruction of the base material. In the forn'iing of pairs of opposed loops to be superimposed on those of Figure 1, the same steps are taken The strip of braid 110 made in the form of a loop and crossed over the braid material beneath. Then, the second loop, that is to say, the loop at the lctt is formed by juxtaposing the side edges and not crossing the braid. indicates buclrram, the sameas the buclrrai 11 and the loops are sewed by a line oi stitching 112 corresponding with the stitching 12 to said buckram. W hen the buckram is severed at the dot-and-dash lines, the cord 11 1 is pulled to flatten the tunneled seam 113 and conform the inner periphery of the loops with the outer periphery. It it to be understood that in the forming of the loops of Figure 1 and the forming of the loops in Figure 3, the tunneled seams 18 and 113 and the cords 14: and 11 1 are no; sewed down. The stitching at the right of Figures 1 and 2, it will be noted in forming the right-hand loops is covered by the crossing material but the sole stitching being the outer edge of each loop, the cord is free to be pulled throughout the loops in the flattening of the braid by exerting a pull on the cord at one end thereof, the pull being thus made effective on both loops. Tl is so because it will be observed that both loops at the corded edge portions thereof are completely free of the crossing. stitches except at one point. The crossing of the cord by the sewing thread at one point only permits of the cord being pulled throughout the whole extent of the cord in a loop or in two opposite loops except at a single point where the sewing thread crosses the cord.

With the loops as in Figure 3 for the crossing frog elements completed and the base fabric 111 severed along the dot-anddash lines indicated in Figure 3, pair of the loops of Figure 3 with the backing material is superposed on the pair of loops as shown in Figure 2, the superposed relation being shown in Figure l.

When the two pairs of loops have been superposed in Figure at, they are united by an embroidered button 15 shown in Figure 5, thereby permanently uniting the two Mills of separate and independent loops. The product is now subject 'l to suitable treat ment to destroy the buclrram backing E1 and 111, which usually is done by baking in an oven, which process chemically destroys the prepared or doctored buclrram base but which does not affect the braid or stitching, it being understood that the preparation or doctoring of the buckram causes/it to readily disintegrate and be destroyed by the heat of the oven. The product is then as illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 showing respectively the obverse and reverse of the frog. It will be observed from a comparison of Figures 6 and 7 and from the edge view of Figure 8, that the embroidered button 15 is produced T he numeral 111..

simultaneously at both sides of the frog and both sides are alike or quite similar. The product is now ready for application to a garmentor to apparel material by sewing in the usual manner.

In Figure 9 I have illustrated the formation of a loop in a continuous piece instead of formed of superposed elements. In said figure the fabric 211 has sewed thereto a continuous strip 210 formed into four loops disposed about a common center and with one pair of loops at substantially right angles to another pair of loops, the terminals of the single strip lying adjacent to each other. It will be observed that the opposed inner side edges of each loop are juX- taposed to each other and that the strip which is of corded braid as previously referred to at no time crosses itself. The strip 210 is sewed adjacent the outer edge of the braid by a line of stitching 212. The numeral 218 indicates the tunneled seam containing the cord such as 14 or 114 which cord is to be pulled to flatten the loops after the. line of stitching 212 has been produced. The cord having been pulled to flatten out the loops, a button, such as 15, but not shown in Figure 9, is produced on the ornament as shown in Figure 2 and the fabric is then destroyed as previously referred to.

The present invention is distinguished from my copending application (filed August 28, 1925, Serial Number 53.188) relatin' also to a method producing apparel ornaments in that in the present case the invention involves the making of an ornament by imposing one pair of loops upon another, the loops being separate and independent, the juxtaposition of be material forming the loops as distinguished from crossing the material on itself as well as the making of the loops on a destructible base fabric. The invention also in its important phases involves the generic idea of forming the ornaments on a base fabric from a corded strip and then the pulling of the cord to flatten the oramentwhile on the base fabric, such as a destructible fabric or apparel fabric. The invention also in the present case resides in forming a plurality of elements to enter in the formation of an ornament and from a continuous strip, whereby the strip may be severed between the separate elements.

In Figure 2 a complete ornament of two loops is shown simila to Figure 2 butwith the button (115) corresponding with the embroidered button 15 in position, whereby the ornament will present two oppositely disposed loops only.

A further important advantage arising from the described mode of forming apparel ornaments involving the stitching at the outer edge and then the pulling of the cord at the inner edge is that the very characternormal width shown at the terminals of the loops and the very materially wider portion of the braid at the bends or curves of the loops. The result is that I am enabled to employ a narrower and less expensive braid while giving the same a form as to have a greater width with apparently a wider embroidery eii ect, thus promoting the economy of the narrower braid.

I would state furthermore that while the illustrated examples constitute practical em bodiments of my invention, I do not limit myself strictly to the exact details herein illustrated, since, manifestly, the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In amethod of producing looped apparel ornaments; forming a strip of mate rial into separate and independent pairs of oppositely disposed loops, the one pair of loops being separate from and non-continuous with the loops of the other pair, imposing one pair of loops transversely upon the other, then uniting said pairs of loops.

2. In a method of producing looped apparel ornaments; forming a strip of material into separate and independent pairs of oppositely disposed loops, imposing one pair of loops transversely upon the other, then uniting said pairs of loops at the center thereof.

3. In a method of producing looped apparel ornaments; forming a strip of material into separate and independent pairs of oppositely disposed loops, imposing one pair of loops transversely upon the other, then uniting said. pairs of loops at the center thereof by producing a stitched button with the stitching running through the material of the loops to both sides thereof.

t. In a method of producing looped apparel ornaments, forming a strip of material into successive connected pairs of loops with the loops of each pair oppositely disposed, with the portions of said strip forming one loop of each pair continuous with the opposite loop of each pair and severing the material between the pairs of loops.

5. In a method of producing looped apparel ornaments, forming a strip of material into successive pairs of loops with the loops of each'pair oppositely disposed, cutting the material to separate the pairs of loops, then imposing one pair of loops on another transversely and fastening the loops together.

6. In a method of producing looped ornaments from corded braid, disposing said braid on a base fabric, forming loops in the braid while on the fabric and securing the loops to the said fabric with the cord of the braid at the interior edge of the loops, and then puliing said cord to flatten the braid and conform the interior edge to the X- terior ec ge.

In a method oi? producing apparel ornaments from corded braid, sewing said braid in looped form onto a base fabric by stitching the braid adjacent the outer edges of the loops and With the cord at the interior edges oi the loops, then pullin the cord after the braid is sewed to said fabric to fiatten the interior edges of the loops and conform the same to the exterior edges.

-8. In a method 01' forming looped ornaments iroin corded braid, forming a series of successive pairs of loops and stitching the loops adjacent their outer edges to a base fabric, and severing the fabric and braid between the pairs of loops, super-imposing one pair of loops transversely upon another pair of loops, and uniting said super-imposed pairs oi loops.

9. In a method of producing looped apparel ornaments from corded braid, forming a loop in the braid with the cord of the braid at the inner edge and with the opposed side edges of said loop of the ornament in close relation Without crossing, and stitching the braid to a base fabric adjacent the outer edge of the braid, then pulling the cord to flatten the loop andcoordinate the inner edge with the outer edge.

ABRAHAM ROSENBERG. 

